Grotesque
Regular price
€127.99
A01=Justin D. Edwards
A01=Justin Edwards
A01=Rune Graulund
abnormal embodiment
Abnormality
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Author_Justin D. Edwards
Author_Justin Edwards
Author_Rune Graulund
Bahktin
Body Horror
Burj Al Arab Hotel
Caricature
Carnivalesque
carnivalesque studies
Category=ATF
Category=ATFA
Category=DSB
Category=JBCT
Category=NH
critical idiom series
Des Esseintes
Disambiguation
Disharmony
Dissonance
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Fat Black Woman
Female Grotesque
Foucault
Freaks
Gastric System
Geek Love
Golden Eye
Grotesque
Grotesque Art
Grotesque Bodies
grotesque bodies in cultural history
Grotesque Figure
Grotesque Laughter
Holy Mountain
Horror Movies
Hot Dog Vendors
Human Centipede
Internet News Reports
John Drakakis
Justin D. Edwards
Justin Edwards
Kristeva
literary theory analysis
Literature
Macabre
Mandeville's Travels
Mis Shapen
Monstrosity
Monstrous Races
NCI
New Critical Idiom
Parody
Post-Human
Postcolonial
postcolonial aesthetics
Queer
queer representation
Replusion
Richard III
Routledge
Rune Graulund
Ruskin
Satire
Shakespeare's Richard III
Sixteen Candles
Symbolic Grotesque
The Absurd
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415519090
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film.
The book:
- presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present
- examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts
- introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg
- analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks
- explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque.
Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.
Justin D. Edwards is Research Professor of English at University of Surrey. He has taught at the universities of Copenhagen, Quebec and Montreal, and he has held research fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (2005-6) and Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in 2010.
Rune Graulund is a Lecturer in English at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has taught literature and cultural studies at the University of Copenhagen and the University of London.
